Haiti Earthquakes: Video press conference

January 13, 2010, press teleconference in Toronto on how Médecins Sans Frontières was immediately responding to and effected by the January 12 7-magnitude earthquake that struck Port-au-Prince.

Paul McPhun, an operations manager for Médecins Sans Frontières in Haiti, speaks this morning at a press conference held in Toronto following yesterdays devastating earthquake in Port-au-Prince. Médecins Sans Frontières is already treating hundreds of people injured in the disaster and has been setting up clinics in tents to replace the international emergency humanitarian organizations own damaged medical facilities. Médecins Sans Frontières is working hard to get more staff into the country. Around 70 more are expected to arrive in the coming days.

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